William Kent Krueger Quotes
I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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Congress seems to be very good at doing nothing.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hello. We've just realized you're really a no-talent hillbilly. We've made a horrible mistake and we'd like you to leave now.'
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are so many players and so many other smart people in the space, I feel like I don't have a competitive advantage. So I tend to go after things that are e-commerce, like healthcare.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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You would probably not say that he was sleeping the sleep of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light.
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Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
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I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
